Tuesday, July 16, 2013

StrateGems magazine, and three prized helpmates

First we will say a few words about the American chess magazine StrateGems and then we will see the three prizes from a tourney for moremovers helpmates.

The magazine StrateGems, with the issue 63 July - September 2013, 56 pages, has reached its 16th volume.
Its site is http://strategems.net and you may reach the chief editor, Mike Prcic, via e-mail tuzlak@aol.com .

To have an idea for the variety of the contents, here they are in titles:

The White forms twice a battery Knight / Bishop and the wS goes to the same square to give a model mate. There is a mirror-Echo of the mates in the two solutions. We see the self-blocks of the Black and a Pelle-move of the pinned wB. The position of the wK defines the sequence of the black moves.

Reciprocal captures. When the piece, which gives mate in another solution, is captured we have Theme Zilahi. We see model mates. The interesting part is that the knights step on the same squares, making their roundtrips, but in opposite directions!

Exercises of the day

Every day the website www.shredderchess.com offers to the readers of the blogs three easy chess exercises. They are given in three levels of difficulty, (L1, L2, and L3), and you may give the solution by moving the pieces with the mouse pointer. Below the diagram is then shown if the answer is correct or not.

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